Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd declined the butler 's offer to take his coat : he might want to leave in a hurry . |
| 2 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 3 | Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word . |
| 4 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 5 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 6 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 7 | " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . " |
| 8 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 9 | Joan for what it 's worth erm and this is just something you might want to think about a mobile is worth its weight in gold . |
| 10 | It would be very naive to suppose that one report taken on its own could tell you as much as you might want to know about the organization . |
| 11 | Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room . |
| 12 | There had been concern that ETA might seek to strike at the Expo 92 Universal Exhibition in Seville , held from April 20 to Oct. 12 , or at the Olympic Games in Barcelona ( July 25-Aug. 9 ) . |
| 13 | And the fear was a burden , that he might need to move to a place which would kill his intellectual life . |
| 14 | But a check-out line is not the place for the kinds of confrontation senior management might need to have on the shop floor ! |
| 15 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 16 | The king himself was not paid ( although Edward Balliol , ‘ king ’ of Scots , drew payment both in times of war and peace ) but dukes received 13s. 4d ; earls 6s. 8d ; knights-baneret 4s ; knights-bachelor 2s ; and esquires 1s ; these last sums corresponding proportionately to the amount each might expect to spend on a horse ( as outlined above ) whose value was agreed in advance , so that compensation for its loss could be paid by the crown . |
| 17 | Correspondingly , unpopular schools might expect to contract to a point at which they lose their viability . |
| 18 | The values stated represent the price a collector might expect to pay for the item , taking condition into account . |
| 19 | The effect is warm and friendly , rather than the immaculate ‘ designer look ’ that you might expect to find in a house full of talented people . |
| 20 | It might arise if one additional record were added to each group of consecutive records ; for example , a group of stores might begin to open on a Saturday , and require an extra record for each store to record transactions . |
| 21 | At any moment Dick might begin to slide towards the quarry . |
| 22 | Millie did not answer straightaway ; then , thought fully , she said , ‘ I thought I might like to go to the day school . |
| 23 | Sorry , sir , you said any time after six ; it 's only quarter past ; thought you might like to listen to the news headlines first . |
| 24 | Before you visit the Church of St Clement and the Clementinum , you might like to stop for a cup of coffee at the House of the Golden Snake . |
| 25 | I thought you might like to stop for a coffee . ’ |
| 26 | When the Archimandrite suggested that the two ladies might like to lodge at the monastery that night , she was briefly dismissive ; when he pressed his offer of hospitality further , she was brusque . |
| 27 | erm then erm what I 'll do I 'll pick it up next week and that will obviously show you a bit more about Abbey Life and any , any of your friends or anybody you think might , might like to look at the video erm you know just to give them an insight , people you mentioned erm to me that you perhaps know you 'd like to pass the video on to them to have a look erm and if er er you 've got my number and if you want to ring me then I can get some more videos if you think other people might be interested I 'm quite happy to pass them on , on to you as well , okay ? |
| 28 | Conservative Members might like to think about the league table that I am about to cite . |
| 29 | It was thought that their former colleagues might like to hear from the University , particularly if some improvement in the alumni services available to those who studied at Stirling years ago could be made both useful and attractive . |
| 30 | Anyone who has ever admired ‘ well kept ’ horses in immaculate stables might like to ponder on the fact that wild horses do n't : |